Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-24
The "Intslligencer' Still Busy Maligning the
Police.
ITS LATEST EFFORT IN THIS LINE,
And the Slender Peg Upon Which the Story
Hung.
THE FACTS In THE CASE GIVEN

ing immoral women WILING
upholy crusade, made another attack upon
the police force, its onslaught being a
shade more despicable than anything it had
heretofore undertaken. The fuel used to
bring about this ebullition of spleen was a
sensational account, bristling with
EyAGGERATIoNs AND MIsREPREsENrA-
TONS,
If the arrest of the colOred woman, Mollie
Henderson, at Warden's Livery Stable, at
the corner of Market and Twenty-thlrd
street, about IL o'clock Thursday night,
the officer detailed for the duty being
Charles Stephens, OF the Sixth ward.
| While not accusing Officer Stephens di-
rectly, by name, the Mteligeneer lntimat-
ed in a way which was upmistakable that
he was one Of the men who enticed
the woman into the stable, and detained
her there, and editorially, after relterating
this grieyous wrong, called upon every
innocent man upon the police force 10
assist in ferritlng out the culprlt. The
only basis for this exhibition OF venom to-
wards Officer Stephens, and wholesale
libel upon the force at large, was an ex-
pression, attributed to the woman, that she
felt brass buttons upon the clothing OF
one of the men assaulting her. As 1t was
a. dark in the stable as the inside of a COW,
the woman's sense Of touch, presuminG
her 10 have made such q statement, must
have been
EXCEEDINGLY ACUTE,
and a newspaper actuated by honest mo-
| tiyes would have long hesitated before as
sailing any one upon such transparent evil
dence. With the MtChigeaccT, however,
everything z ed when a policeman is the
thing to he assailed, and hence we were
treated to the exhibition OF yesterday.
As a further evidence of the recklessnesS
of the organ of the demi monde, it yesteE'
day went out of its way to hit Z. Gavin,
| the ~saIoonist, AT the corner of Market and
Thirty-third street, a knock; asserting that
| the woman was taken to his place OF bust
ness. This IL totally false, yet this attempt
to iniure Mr.. Gavin was printed, when q
visit to him would have shown his entire
innocence of any connection with the
matter.
4 REGISTER reporter met Mr.. Gavin
Yesterday, when that gentleman said:
.'The statement that the TOman was
h,,r.,b, 30 my %salOOn, aud the iptImatiOn
that beer was sent o.. p"i
ARE EQUALLY FALSE.
My barkeeper knew nothing Of the pres
ence of the crowd in the stable until
the officer had made the arrest, and
had brought the woman up to the cor
ner OF the street, while / did not know OF
the trouble until the next morning, al
though | live Immediately over a portion
of the stable. / am sure there were no
cries of police or anything else, or | or
my family wOuld have heard them. 1t Is
no unusual thing for men and women to
enter the stable for immoral purposes, but
OF course Mr.. Warden knows nothing about
it. | have put half a dozen couples out
of the place myself, as they annoy me.
Only last week / surprised a mai and
! woman and fred them out. | am going
to have u contradiction from the Intelligent
Ger, or they will
HEAR SOMETHING DROP
Mr.. John Osborn, who lives immediate
ly south of the stable, heard no cries OF
''pOlicew or "help" although two win
dOws open from the stable right along side
his back porch, where he was a portion OF
the time. He did hear a conversation, but
its nature was not such rs to give the idea
that violence was being used.
Waterman Moore, who was in the stable
Office, Immediately over the room where
the crowd was, with m open trap door,
heard no screams or cries. When the men
began trying to get out he shut the door.
Yesterday morning the Henderson wOm-
an went before Justice Davis and swore
out q warrant for Frank Freds, the col
Ored man whom she met on the street
prior to her going to the stable, and he was
promptly arrested by Chief Smith. At the
Justices office the woman made the fol-
lowing
STATEMENT UNDER OATH.
81 came down on the $50 train Thurs
day evening from Steubenville, and started
to 20 to the house of Mrs. Baldwin, on the
South Side. On Market street, near the
Star Foundry, | met Freds, and stopped to
talk to him. While we were talking a
young man cameup, and spoke to me, say
ing, i think l saw you i'll Little Washing
ton l said, No, you did not Freds
then said, He is n chum OF mine; we
have been on several little sprees together
Freds then crossed over on the west side
of the street near the bridge, and walked
along that side, while the young man kept
with me. Down by the market house he
said: Wouldn't you like to have a glass
Of beer?:' and added that his brother kept
a saloon near by. ! said it wouldn't do
for me to go in; that ! was a colored
woman. He told me would take me in the
back way, and bring the beer ont. He
then
OPENED A RIG DOOR,
and we went in. 1t was dark. He put
his hands on my shoulders and tried to
pull me down on the floor. l said, No,
you can't do that to me- Then another
man caught me by the throat and choked
me. struggled, but other men came and
/ was o~ve-powered. When the police
came and truck a light there were about a
dozen men there. Judging from the size
of on Of the men, and his moustache and
whiskers, l think he was Freds."
The Justice asked the woman particu-
larly as the brass button allegation, but
she persisted in saying she had neither seen
nor felt anything Of the sort.
Freds stated that when he left the woman
and the young man be continued on down
to the corner Of T~wenty-tirst street, where
he met Officer Grubler, and then he stop
ped and talked to the officer for "a good
while" and then went home. He al first
denied that he knew the man he had intro
duced to the woman, but being pressed, he
gave the name of q well-known South
Side nail-feeder. The officers at once set
out to look for this man, but he had
GOT u OF TOWN.
Chief Smith was very indignant yester-
day at the malicious attack of the InteVi-
geneer upon his force. He said it was
one of the dirtiest things yet perpetrated
by that paper. In reply to questions
by a reporter, he said it was
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